Critical examinations of efforts to make governments more efficient and responsive Political upheavals and civil wars in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins an

This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations. It gives voice to pers

Explores the relation between histories of violence and their contemporary commemoration.

Examines new authoritarian practices and state control in MENA countries to target and neutralise dissidents